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30 Richest R and B Stars

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated as R&B or RnB, is a genre of popular Black American music that originated in the 1940s.[1] The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban Black Americans, at a time when “urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat” was becoming more popular.[2] In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, saxophone, and sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the Black American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy.[3]Lyrics focus heavily on the themes of triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, freedom, economics, aspirations, and sex.